Inner Workings is my poetry anthology, named after a composition book I started in high school with the same name. That composition book is filled with poems I write in my teens and early twenties dealing with the hardships of life and discovering who I am as a person. Poetry is the first thing I knew I could write well, granted back then it was mostly poems I wrote for my mom on her birthday. Poetry has a way of striking the soul easier and more directly than any prose writing. I share these poems, often from my most vulnerable moments, so that others who are suffering similar thing will know they're not alone. I've read my poetry hundreds of times to readers and have been met with heartfelt tears and hugs. As I continue to write poems my hope is that my pain can help others heal.